Community based co-operation protocol for social networks

Abstract

In wireless ad-hoc networks, information propagates through several intermediate relay nodes. The mobiles in ad-hoc network have limited energy, so the nodes feel uncomfortable to act as a relay for other’s data transformation. If all nodes starts performing in a same manner, network throughput will drop drastically. To avoid such circumstances we should develop a game strategy. In our thesis work, we addressed the issue of co-operation strategy based on communities instead of nodes. We developed communities based on the social ties between members, because a member willing to provide better services to members, who are having strong social tie with him, especially in energy constrained Environments. After the community formation, we applied GTFT(Generous TIT For TAT) strategy on communities and we show that it performs well under heavy non-cooperative networks. The community formation will make our strategy more scalable.